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From: Scott Merrilees <Sm@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>
Subject: Re: why i liked rc1.2's echo...
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> [or ``why i'm not letting the great echo controversy just die'']

Or you could do something I first heard espoused by Robert Elz
(kre@munnari), that echo should just echo its arguments, kind of like
a permanent -n.

So to get -n behavoiur, do

	echo string

and to get normal echo behavoiur, use

	echo 'string
'

This has that advantage that it is extremely simple & consistant.

Sm